It might look a bit...off, at first glance, but hey, there are plenty of bright-white nigh-contact binary stars out there, and Maltese crosses have been proposed as a real shape for these crafts...

My own spacey piece, "Solar sailing round twin suns".

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Yes, flying saucers are a real proposed shape for solar sails. No, I'm not apologizing for it. My own artwork, "Full sail under a red giant".

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My own artwork, "Reach for the Light": in the age of the solar sail, spacefarers will swing so close to sunspots it'll feel like they can reach right out and touch them. Perhaps, someday, we will...

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Future: Space-Floating Silicon Brains - Casey Handmer and Dwarkesh Patel

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Using sunlight to power up a flywheel in space to fling interstellar objects.

"Kipping began thinking about using sail materials to harvest the energy of solar photons, storing it in what could be considered a battery, and then using that stored energy, transformed into kinetic energy, to hurl a small spacecraft outwards."

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2025/08/01/a-space-catapult-with-interstellar-potential/

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A Space Catapult with Interstellar Potential | Centauri Dreams

« Ils veulent faire exploser l'espace » : comment des scientifiques audacieux envisagent de propulser une sonde grâce à des explosions nucléaires et une voile solaire - Enviro2B

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A Giant Ribbon Can Pull Payloads Along

Innovation is a history of someone trying to build a better mouse trap – or at least that’s how it’s described in business school. But what happens if someone tries to build a better version of something that isn’t even commonly used yet? Maybe we will soon find out, as NASA recently supported an effort … Continue reading "A Giant Ribbon Can Pull Payloads Along"

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Jetzt fühl ich mich wie Sisko … hab auf nem Planeten in No Man Sky nen Solarsegler gefunden ^^

Echt cool wie die Segel sich beim Starten/Landen aus- und einfahren. Außerdem bewegen sie sich beim Lenken mit :)

Ja, ich bin leicht zu begeistern *g*

Screenshot in VR aufgenommen.

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